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It was a question raised by WFAN’s Sweeny Murti on Monday, and it’s an interesting one:
2017 plan is in question too as Bird loses a critical year of development. Maybe a stopgap option? Maybe that’s Teixiera??
— Sweeny Murti (@YankeesWFAN) February 1, 2016
The proposition, of course, stems from the fact that Yankees’ 23-year-old backup first baseman Greg Bird will miss the entire 2016 season because of shoulder surgery he had performed on Tuesday to repair a torn labrum.